DH-POS on an Apple machine?
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:16 pm
Hi folks,
I'm going to try a wee project soon.
I'm moving over to solely Apple machines in the house soon, so i've got an iMac 20" (Intel Core Duo) and MacMini (Motorola G4) I hope to add a MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo) to complete the transition.
The Intel Mac of course can run Windows XP SP2 (and apparently Vista) using Bootcamp (it boots into Windows bypassing MacOS), there is also an application called Parallels Workstation which uses the 2nd core of the Intel chip to run a PC in a window using various operating systems.
Now the project - get DH-POS to run as I have both USB->Parallel & USB->Serial adapters.
If its successful, then we'll see if it can run on one of those cheap MacMini's with Intel chip to provide a tiny, quiet and very efficient POS base unit!
P.S.. I've had DH-POS working perfectly in a window using Virtual PC on the MacMini G4 (emulating WinXP) but I have'nt tried the USB adapter to see if printers etc will work (certainly a network printer should work fine)
Alan
I'm going to try a wee project soon.
I'm moving over to solely Apple machines in the house soon, so i've got an iMac 20" (Intel Core Duo) and MacMini (Motorola G4) I hope to add a MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo) to complete the transition.
The Intel Mac of course can run Windows XP SP2 (and apparently Vista) using Bootcamp (it boots into Windows bypassing MacOS), there is also an application called Parallels Workstation which uses the 2nd core of the Intel chip to run a PC in a window using various operating systems.
Now the project - get DH-POS to run as I have both USB->Parallel & USB->Serial adapters.
If its successful, then we'll see if it can run on one of those cheap MacMini's with Intel chip to provide a tiny, quiet and very efficient POS base unit!
P.S.. I've had DH-POS working perfectly in a window using Virtual PC on the MacMini G4 (emulating WinXP) but I have'nt tried the USB adapter to see if printers etc will work (certainly a network printer should work fine)
Alan